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and there is much work now required. Outlay is needed as seats are to be placed in different parts of the garden.
Under these circumstances, we have to solicit His Excellency The Governor's favorable consideration of our urgent need of additional funds to enable us to complete the works in a manner to be executed before the surface can be rendered available in any way for planting.
Stone curbing to the walks and brick drainage have also been indispensable and must add considerably to the expenditure. We have been obliged partially to construct regularly paved channels to prevent damage in the rains, and indeed without such channels there will be the possibility of maintaining the walks in order. The work so far executed has been efficiently performed and will, from its durability, eventually prove a great economy.
Materials for the terraces are required to prevent the possibility of any serious damage during the approaching summer, as well as to admit of the completion and embellishment of the area in a suitable manner.
We have much satisfaction in stating that the various shrubs, trees, grass, and flowers already planted have succeeded admirably, and there is every prospect of the garden being a success.